ALL OTHER GRANT TYPES

Post-doctoral Grants, Pilot Projects and Other Project Grants

We award seed corn funding for researchers to obtain data, in order to apply for major grants from larger funders.

We also contribute funds to support post-doctoral researchers and larger projects. These projects all enter the same funding stream with applications accepted throughout the year.

A pyramid approach is adopted to scale our funding to account for the track record of the projects that are presented and the researchers associated with them. Our typical funding scale is between £5,000 to no more than £20,000 a year, awards for first time applicants would tend to be in the bottom half of that scale whilst more experienced and proven researchers working on outstanding projects could be offered funding nearer the top end of the scale. Any request above £20,000 can only likely be considered if one of our co donor partners contributes with us.

Deadlines

Applications for funding of these grants can be made at any time of the year. On receipt of your application, if suitable we will immediately request at least two external peer reviews. When we have received this feedback, and assuming it to be favourable, we will prepare your application for discussion at the next scientific committee meeting. These take place every 2 months towards the end of January, March, May, July, September and November. We advise that the peer review process can sometimes take a couple of months plus to be completed, although outside of our control we do our best to turnaround your application as quickly as possible.